Help me get up to speed with RAW DAO etc guys!!!!
 

This time last year, there was only ONE CD Writer and reader combination worth going for, which was....DRUM ROLL......
The Mitsumi 4804TE, and a Toshiba DVD Rom Drive (preferably RPC-1 !!). With this set up, and as I can personally attest there's virtually nothing you cannot copy with it.
Whilst I'm not particularly looking for a replacement ATM, it'd be nice to know what's generally regarded as the bees knees of late?
Also, and I think this should be put at the head of ALL CDR forums on EVERY separate page, UNLESS YOUR WRITER IS CAPABLE OF RAW DAO, then you're pretty much F**KED right from the start, a LOT of the time, if you want to make reliable back-ups!!!

So then, what's king of the hill this year then? Plextor?

Another thing, if CloneCD really does make 'perfect' 1:1 copies, then how come you have to e-mail Olli, every time you find something, that it WON'T copy??!! Like SafeDisk 2.0 for example. I remember when 2.1.0.4 was current, that when I went to back up my multisession Jimmy White's 2 Cueball CD, CloneCD fell flat on it's face with another coaster, due to....a 'bug discovered in 2.1.0.4 when copying multisession CD's blah blah blah'....the later release (AFTER I e-mailed Olli worked fine thereafter incidentally)!! If it's REALLY doing a 1:1 RAW copy, then why doesn't it do a DUPLICATE, 'warts 'n all' ??

Cheers